Maintain business continuity with seamless coverage during extended leaves, ensuring your team doesn’t miss a beat.
Long-term Projects
Add resources for major initiatives like large transactions, regulatory projects, or organizational transformations.
Unexpected Departures
Fill gaps left by sudden absences with experienced lawyers who can step in and contribute immediately.
How is it different
Benefits of Legal Secondments
Rapid, high-caliber support
Experienced in-house lawyers who fill gaps and keep your legal team running smoothly.
Cost-effective legal talent
Get top-tier legal expertise without the cost or headache of hiring for a temporary role.
Seamless business continuity
Seconded lawyers step in with minimal disruption, ensuring legal operations stay on track.
Quality and accountability
Our dedicated account teams ensure your seconded lawyer delivers real business impact.
“Our lawyer quickly integrated with our internal business groups. She felt like part of our team from day one, adding immediate value.”
Chris Downie
Senior Director, Legal Counsel Loblaws Inc.
How it works
Steps to get started with your Legal Secondment
Initial discovery
Book a discovery meeting with our in-house expert, so we can understand your legal challenges.
Design your engagement
Goodlawyer will curate a shortlist of top-tier lawyers for your secondment.
Meet our talent
Once you confirm your ideal volume and talent profile, we will facilitate lawyer interviews.
Launch
Integrate your seconded lawyer into your team ensuring immediate ROI throughout the pilot.
What it looks like
Legal Secondment Case Studies
Pearl
16 years of experience
Formerly:
Client:
Global clean energy company
Volume:
Full-time Secondment
Role:
Acting as the Canadian GC working directly with the executive and global legal team on expansion & compliance.
Value:
Full-time coverage for a 12-month parental leave, with senior GC talent.
April
13 years of experience
Formerly:
Client:
Publicly listed software company
Volume:
Part-time Secondment
Role:
Reporting to the Head of Legal to provide capital markets expertise and support commercial operations.
Value:
Part-time (2 days per week) support on a major commercial project.
Shannon
10 years of experience
Formerly:
Client:
Canada's leading grocery retailer
Volume:
Full-time Secondment
Role:
Supporting the Senior Director execute several acquisitions on schedule.
Value:
Instant backfill for a 3-month parental leave, without skipping a beat.
FAQs
Where do you get your talent?
We pride ourselves on the exceptional quality of our legal talent. Our rigorous vetting and recruitment process turns away roughly 95% of applicants. This ensures that our network only has top-tier talent. Our Fractional Counsels boast an average of 12 years of legal experience, often hailing from prestigious backgrounds in big law firms like Blakes, BLG, and Osler, or holding significant in-house roles at renowned companies such as Wal-Mart, Shopify, and TD. This blend of experience ensures a comprehensive understanding and ability to cater to a diverse range of legal needs.
What if I don’t use all the hours?
We understand that legal needs have peaks and valleys, so we built Fractional Counsel with flexibility at its core. Each engagement has a quarterly (90-day) rollover window, allowing you the freedom to utilize any unused hours within this period. This approach ensures that you get the full value of your Fractional Counsel, providing you with peace of mind and the flexibility to use their services as and when your needs arise.
What does the 90-day pilot entail?
Every fractional mandate begins with a 90-day pilot. We do this to build trust and demonstrate the value of your fractional counsel, while also collecting feedback that can be used to refine and optimize the engagement. Our Operations team will help your Fractional Counsel get integrated using our proven best practices.
The first steps include onboarding like you would any new team member, including setting up a company email and scheduling a weekly recurring touchpoint. Our Fractional Counsels are keen to roll up their sleeves and take on immediate tasks while working with management to identify longer-term priorities.
Throughout the Pilot, our Operations team will check in and ensure your project is on track for a successful outcome. The pilot will conclude with a review to determine whether adjustments are required before continuing the mandate.
What makes Goodlawyer different from other ALSPs?
Goodlawyer sets itself apart from other Alternative Legal Service Providers primarily through its unique approach to engaging legal talent. Unlike many ALSPs, we do not impose full-time, exclusive work requirements on our lawyers. This flexibility allows us to attract and retain highly experienced and skilled legal professionals across Canada.
Furthermore, top lawyers are attracted to practicing as Fractional Counsel with innovative scaleups and modern in-house teams. This exposure to challenging and innovative environments is a critical factor in Goodlawyer's ability to attract top legal talent and deliver high-quality legal services to our clients.
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